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...beatle-mopped chap named Don Bessant, was dressed, prophetically, like an Oscarette in a gold lame pajama suit. Kim Novak slinked by in something that looked like a sequined American flag, while Julie Andrews wore a red-orange wool broadcloth with a deep-V "wrapped front" and a 30-karat topaz pendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Ticky-Tack | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...people enjoy their work as much as Doug Sanders does. A lanky, handsome Georgian who fancies brilliant blazers with 14-karat gold buttons, Sanders, 31, is the contemporary good-time Charlie of the pro-golf tour. Faced with a tricky shot, he has been known to march up to the prettiest face in the gallery, flash his warmest smile, and whisper hoarsely: "What do you suggest?" And at night-well, his fellow pros don't call him "Daiquiri Doug" for nothing. "I've spilled more than Tony

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Two for Mr. Clean | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Ghana these days, Cabinet Ministers are about as scarce as 14-karat pads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Crowbar Redivivus | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts of a praying mantis. There is J.B.'s mistress, Hedy La Rue (Virginia Martin), a carrot-topped vixen with a 14-karat heart. And there is the mating-call girl, played by raven-haired Bonnie Scott, who is all ready to be an office widow in the suburbs, "basking in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect," even before she becomes an office wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Officemanship | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...mink coat, as an end in itself, is already old hat to a growing section of our population." Every woman now wants not just a mink, but a distinctive mink, just as she wants distinction in everything else, even to bathroom faucets, where the latest rage is "24-karat gold faucets shaped like swans and flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The New Luxury Market | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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